Hi Heiko,
Thank you for the response...that gets me on the right track...
So if I assume that my Exim user group is 'mailbag' then I would chgrp
mailbag /etc/shadow right?
Thanks again!
Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
> Kevin Davidson <davidscom@???> (Do 19 Mär 2009 17:52:35 CET):
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to set up Exim to use SMTP Auth on my VPS. I have found
>> various instructions, including some set by the support department by my
>> provider. It simply does not work. Instructions provided were:
>>
>> $ chgrp exim /etc/shadow
>> $ chmod g+r /etc/shadow
>>
>> Add the following block of text to the authenticators section of your
>> exim.conf:
>>
>> plain:
>> driver = plaintext
>> public_name = PLAIN
>> server_prompts = :
>> server_set_id = $2
>> server_condition = "${if pam{$2:$3}{1}{0}}"
>>
>> login:
>> driver = plaintext
>> public_name = LOGIN
>> server_prompts = "Username:: : Password::"
>> server_set_id = $1
>> server_condition = "${if pam{$1:$2}{1}{0}}"
>>
>> Taken from:
>> http://www.tipcache.com/tip/Setup_SMTP_AUTH_and_TLS_with_Exim_8.html
>>
>> Now I can't get past 'step 1' - chgrp exim /etc/shadow
>>
>> There is no group called exim. How can proceed to get this to work?
>>
>
> ``man groupadd'' will point you the direction :) And you may have to
> make sure that exim runs as user "exim" and that in turn this user has
> the primary group "exim".
>
> May be you should ``exim -bP exim_group'' to learn about the group exim
> is using.
>
> Probably it will help to assing the group of the shadow file as
> additional group to exim. (See ``man usermod'' for this).
>
> Best regards from Dresden/Germany
> Viele Grüße aus Dresden
> Heiko Schlittermann
>
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